Florida Man at it again?
Posted on 08/10/2017 1:06:14 PM PDT by libstripper
Concur. A predator is never `100% efficient at removing rodents and vermin - a few will ALWAYS survive and breed and spread disease/odors/feces/parasites.
Remove the vermin, remove the predator(s), seal the area and access points, clean and fumigate, rinse, wash, repeat.
Exactly. The prey species has to have a viable population to keep the predator fed. And the predator has to poop the remains of the prey. In the case of snakes they also regurgitate pellets of hair and bone the same way owls and raptors do.
I don’t want a terrarium that never gets cleaned over my head with only drywall in between.
I’d go with a cat versus a snake unless you put the snake in the basement. Having an uninvited guests, means more uninvited guests..
What's a 10 footer cost, ya think?
How much for one that eats trolls?
I had field mice nest in my outdoor air conditioner unit and they chewed the wires. Nasty.
I had field mice nest in my outdoor air conditioner unit and they chewed the wires. Nasty.
Florida Man at it again?
I pinged her...
No matter where you move to, that cat’s eyes seem to be looking right at you.
SELL, BEEKMAN, SELL!!!!!
Had to tent my house for dry wood termites. Never knew what died above the front porch but the smell of death lingered for over a week. Florida has plenty of critters that can live in attics.
The local herp dude had a baby Boa get loose in the family home, from which he moved away.
He returned 9 years later to discover the Boa had been living in the attic, all that time, hale and hearty, thriving on birds and rodents.
It was of an admirable size.
And all of that through vicious western MD winters with no heat source.
Amazing.
I get all excited if I see a baby Garter in the back yard.
Easy to please, I reckon.
Sissy.
They never bark in the middle of the night.
The people in my area started a pogrom on the local snakes and we ended up with a rat and mouse plague you simply cannot imagine.
We were catching *dozens* a day, in the beginning.
I spent many hours checking all the wires in the house because for some reason, the little fiends delight in chewing stuff to hell for no good reason.
And they were HUGE.
I can’t remember the scientific name but they were ‘wood rats’ that were unhomed when a shyster connived the guy who lives on the other side of the ridge out of his goats.
With no more free food, the endless horde went in search of other grub...and it’s only a few hundred yards from there to here, over the ridge.
What a nightmare.
It took us about 7 years to finally eradicate them all.
All because sissies just *had* to kill all the snakes.
Idiots.
A 6 foot Boa can survive on a meal every month or so.
And weirdly enough, one of the Boa experts says that they grow faster with leaner diets.
So a half dozen vermin in the attic would have been more than enough to sustain him.
Well...it probably was....*squeak* *gulp*.
:D
The only “snakes” you have any actual expertise of, are the ones you see after you drain those whiskey bottles.
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